‎"The education of a firefighter and the continued education of a firefighter is what makes "real" firefighters. Continuous skill development is the core of progressive firefighting. We learn by doing and doing it again and again, both on the training ground and the fireground."
Lt. Ray McCormack, FDNY

whew

I cant believe it. I have just reached the end of an excruciatingly long hour or so of reading this thread. My mind is now fried, totally fried. It feels like a twinkie that has been dropped in a deep fryer and left there for an hour.
This has got to be the coolest thread on the whole site. where else can you spend an hour of your life reading and actually come away less intelligent than when you started.
I actually started to get scared that the thread was going to die when people started seriously listing their cars. I am glad to see that it was re hijacked.
But seriously I just don't understand why people hate fig newtons and fruitcake when there is a much greater enemy out there...........

Those nasty circus peanut candy things.

OM gosh.... I got to run to the bathroom......gonna puke thinking about them.............................................. .................

I cant believe it. I have just reached the end of an excruciatingly long hour or so of reading this thread. My mind is now fried, totally fried. It feels like a twinkie that has been dropped in a deep fryer and left there for an hour.
This has got to be the coolest thread on the whole site. where else can you spend an hour of your life reading and actually come away less intelligent than when you started.
I actually started to get scared that the thread was going to die when people started seriously listing their cars. I am glad to see that it was re hijacked.
But seriously I just don't understand why people hate fig newtons and fruitcake when there is a much greater enemy out there...........

Those nasty circus peanut candy things.

OM gosh.... I got to run to the bathroom......gonna puke thinking about them.............................................. .................

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a good stale bag of circus peanuts! The key is to open the bag the day you buy them then let them sit for a week or so, to let them get good and stale. The easiest way to tell if they are stale enough is to take the bag and drop it on the table. If it sounds like a brick hitting the table they are good to go! God I love circus peanuts!